The house we rented at Dauphin Island last week was very nice, but my one complaint is its lack of good water access for canoes and kayaks. This photo shows some of the other houses in our little cul-de-sac off Mississippi Sound: many hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on dwellings, docks, boat lifts, and so on, and yet not a single low dock for canoe and kayak launching. The anthropologist in me is dying to know: what on Earth is wrong with these people?
I came up with a decent solution at our house:
The boat lift was vacant, so I put the kayaks on it like so, and lowered it until the steel beams were just far enough underwater for the boats to be fully afloat with paddlers sitting in them. That way you could stand on the beams when getting in and out of the boat.
Once again, Holmes Ingenuity™ saved the day.
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